Rothenburg

Rothenburg lies on the Lusatian Neisse and was first recorded in 1268. The town belonged briefly to the Piast duchy of Jawor before passing to the Bohemian Crown in 1329. Knife-making and clothmaking flourished in the fourteenth century, while a trade road connected it with Bohemia and Brandenburg. King Vladislaus II authorized weekly markets after the town returned to the Bohemian Crown in 1490. Rothenburg suffered in the Thirty Years' War, came under Saxon rule in 1635 and passed to Prussia in 1815.